Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told column and told them to keep moving to the asphalt road further along. When they reached VJ positions further down the road they were initially met with anger, as it was late at night and movement was restricted during this time. The VJ troops were also surprised to hear that it was Serbian forces that had ordered the convoy to keep moving. The troops then indicated that the convoy should move on and threatened to kill the passengers of any tractor that veered out of line. The convoy moved on and finally stopped in a field at 01:00 hours. The head of the convoy was already in Donje Sudimlje while the rear was still in Gornje Sudimlje (i.e. approximately 3km away). Serbian forces started shelling and shooting in Gornje Sudimlje, and the IDPs in the convoy lay down on the road in order not to be hit. As the convoy moved on again at about 22:00 hours VJ forces, police and paramilitaries surrounded it on both sides. Men were pulled off their tractors, shot and killed. Some reported that between 90 and 160 people were killed this way on the night of 2 May. One woman recounted that as she walked past abandoned tractors she passed approximately 40 bodies. (For full description of events and citations see Part V, entry for Vucitrn/Vushtrri municipality. See also below for reference to investigative follow-up to the killings.) Indiscriminate attacks on Kosovo Albanian civilians Indiscriminate attacks on populated areas, sporadic prior to 24 March 1999, became a widespread occurrence after that date. For many civilians there was no chance to escape and many were killed due to indiscriminate shelling or grenade attacks by Serbian forces. Shelling and grenade attacks. In Gornja Dubnica/Dumnica e Eperme (Podujevo/Podujeve municipality) between 29 March and 11 April one woman recounted: "Serbian forces were continuously shelling toward the village, but there was no way out. Six people were killed by grenades, among them were three children." One man recounted an incident in the Vucitrn area on 28 March: After the NATO bombing [started] VJ, police and paramilitaries wearing different uniforms, [their] faces coloured in red, blue, black, green, and wearing bullet-proof vests started the action in my village. Fifty people including myself heard an explosion in my house. My father went home to check what happened, and he found my brother's dead body. We discovered that the cause of the explosion was a grenade or mortar. Armed Serbs had been firing mortars and grenades into the town from the Llamarina area 7km from our home. Indiscriminate arms fire. A man recounted an incident that occurred in the second half of April in Kolic/ Koliq (Pristina) that led to many deaths of civilians: On 22 April a UCK soldier, at 08:20 hours, told us to leave immediately because Serbs were about to enter the area. We immediately left for Kolic and came under grenade attack. We had not realized we were surrounded by Serb forces. We tried to find a way to http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch5.htm (9 of 15)12/5/2003 11:50:53 AM